Wednesday, March 12, 2025

Three Things that Won't Help us Against Trump #3: Europe

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The Trump tariffs are on, sort of on, whatever. And the Canadian resistance seems continuous. Good. Here are three things not to be too reli...

Some historic anniversaries

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Meant to post this yesterday.  But things interfered.   March 11 is the 177th anniversary of the achievement of responsible government in th...
Sunday, March 09, 2025

This Month at Canada's History: McGee, Parachute War, SCC and more

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April 2025 marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Thomas D'Arcy McGee. Right on time the new issue of Canada's History has a ...
Friday, March 07, 2025

Three Things that Won't Help Us Against Trump #2: The King

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The Trump tariffs are on, sort of on, whatever. But the Canadian resistance seems continuous.  Good. Here are three things not to be too rel...
Wednesday, March 05, 2025

Historians Talk: David Wilson in Toronto; Jim Phillips in Whitby.

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    My good friend David Wilson, General Editor of the Dictionary of Canadian Biography  and prolific author on Canadian, American, and Iris...

Book Notes: Recent Histories from University of Toronto Press

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It's a big press. Under Canada/History, UTP currently offers 1107 titles. Let's take note of a few of the recent and forthcoming (no...
Tuesday, March 04, 2025

Three Things that won't help us against Trump #1 Interprovincial Trade Reform UPDATED

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So the Trump tariffs are on. And so is the Canadian resistance. Here are three things not to be too reliant on in the struggle: Ending inter...

Book Notes: New Histories from McGill-Queen's

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What have the historians been doing lately? We haven't done a review of new and forthcoming books in Canadian history for too long. So g...
Monday, February 24, 2025

History of Ontario and of elections

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The quick, early, provincial election called by Ontario Premier Ford wraps up this coming Thursday.  I don't think I have ever experienc...
Friday, February 21, 2025

History of really bad ideas

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I have been shocked, shocked, recently to see questions being asked about why King Charles has not weighed in to defend Canada against the T...

History of SubStack

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There are about 25 Christopher or Chris Moore SubStacks.  As far as I know none of them is mine. But recently I got an email from Substack r...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Thomas Naylor 1945-2025 RIP: economic historian

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I think of R. Thomas Naylor, longtime McGill history professor who died the other day, as one of a brotherhood (mostly guys, I think) who em...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Canadian Encyclopedia expands its Macdonald/Indigenous content.

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Following the Dictionary of Canadian Biography , the Canadian Encyclopedia is the latest standard reference work to reflect on and revise i...
Saturday, February 15, 2025

Flying the flag since ... well, years ago, anyway

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  Fun to watch all the enthusiasm for flying the flag these days